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       log:  /Users/baum/Documents/boyan/Boyan-CorpGov/CorpGov_revise/udcl9218-1.smcl
  log type:  smcl
 opened on:  18 Feb 2009, 14:08:30


. // udcl9218-1 examine Gindex for UDCL estimation sample, Compustat through 2007, IRRC through 2006 . use udcl9218_estsample, clear

. desc

Contains data from udcl9218_estsample.dta obs: 13,240 vars: 215 18 Feb 2009 13:43 size: 8,275,000 (98.4% of memory free) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dnum int %8.0g industry classification code cnum str6 %6s cusip issuer code cic str3 %3s cusip issue number and check digit smbl str8 %9s stock ticker symbol spdrc str2 %2s s&p lt domest. issuer credit rating- cur spdrcf str1 %1s ftnt- s&p lt dom issuer cred rating- cur subdbt str1 %1s s&p subordinated debt rating - current spcprc str3 %3s s&p st domest. issuer credit rating- cur date int %d fiscal year data1 double %10.0g cash and short-term investments (mm$) data2 double %10.0g receivables - total (mm$) data5 double %10.0g current liabilities - total (mm$) data6 double %10.0g assets - total (mm$) data9 double %10.0g long-term debt - total (mm$) data10 double %10.0g preferred stock - liquidating value(mm$) data12 double %10.0g sales (net) (mm$) data13 float %9.0g operating income before deprec. (mm$) data14 float %9.0g depreciation and amortization (mm$) data15 float %9.0g interest expense (mm$) data16 float %9.0g income taxes - total (mm$) data17 float %9.0g special items (mm$) data18 float %9.0g income before extraordinary items (mm$) data21 float %9.0g dividends - common (mm$) data25 float %9.0g common shares outstanding (mm) data34 double %10.0g debt in current liabilities (mm$) data35 float %9.0g deferred tax & invest tax credit...(mm$) data46 float %9.0g research and development expense (mm$) data50 float %9.0g deferred taxes (income account) (mm$) data51 float %9.0g investment tax credit (income acct)(mm$) data54 float %9.0g common shares used to calculate eps (mm) data56 double %10.0g preferred stock - redemption value (mm$) data79 float %9.0g debt - convertible (mm$) data108 float %9.0g sale of common and pref. stock... (mm$) data111 double %10.0g long-term debt - issuance... (mm$) data114 double %10.0g long-term debt - reduction... (mm$) data115 float %9.0g purchase of common and pref. stock (mm$) data128 float %9.0g capital expenditures (scf) (mm$) data129 double %10.0g acquisitions (statement of cf) (mm$) data130 float %9.0g preferred stock - carrying value (mm$) data179 float %9.0g working capital (balance sheet) (mm$) data180 float %9.0g working capital change - total(soc)(mm$) data192 float %9.0g extraordinary items (mm$) data199 double %10.0g price -- fiscal year -- close ($&c) data236 float %9.0g working capital change- other... (mm$) data274 float %9.0g cash & cash equiv- increase(dec)...(mm$) data280 byte %8.0g s&p lt domestic issuer credit rating data283 int %8.0g s&p st dom. issuer credit rating- hist data301 double %10.0g changes in current debt (scf) (mm$) coname str28 %28s company name yeara float %8.0g fiscal year gvkey str6 %6s Global Company Key datadate str8 %8s Data Date indfmt str12 %12s Industry Format consol str2 %2s Level of Consolidation - Compan popsrc str2 %2s Population Source datafmt str12 %12s Data Format cusip str10 %10s CUSIP curcd str4 %4s ISO Currency Code costat str2 %2s Active/Inactive Status Marker sic str4 %4s Standard Industry Classificatio company str48 %48s company name blankcheck byte %8.0g blank check preferred cboard byte %8.0g classified board fairprice byte %8.0g fair price supermajor byte %8.0g supermajority to approve merger antigreen byte %8.0g antigreenmail lwcnst byte %8.0g limit ability to act by written consent lspmt byte %8.0g limit ability to call special meeting dutiesnf byte %8.0g director's duties--nonfinancial impact dualclass byte %8.0g dual class common stock uneqvote byte %8.0g unequal voting rights lachtr byte %8.0g limit ability to amend charter ppill byte %8.0g poison pill advnr byte %8.0g advance notice requirements confvote byte %8.0g confidential voting exsvchg byte %8.0g change in control provisions sparachute byte %8.0g silver parachute pparachute byte %8.0g pension parachute cumvote byte %8.0g cumulative voting labylw byte %8.0g limit ability to amend bylaws compplan byte %8.0g compensation plan with change in control cumvotess byte %8.0g substantial shareholder gparachute byte %8.0g golden parachutes oo_buscomp byte %8.0g opt out of buscomb/freezeout law oo_cashout_pa byte %8.0g opt out of control share cashout law (pa) oo_csa byte %8.0g opt out of control share acquisition law(csa) oo_duties byte %8.0g opt out of directors duties law oo_fairprice byte %8.0g opt out of fair price law oo_rprofits byte %8.0g opt out of recapture of profits law oi_bc_ga byte %8.0g opt in to buscomb/freezeout law(ga) oi_fp_ga byte %8.0g opt in to fair price law(ga) oi_csa byte %8.0g opt in to control share acquisition law(csa) exch str6 %6s stocke exchange dirind byte %8.0g director indemnification dirindc byte %8.0g indemnification contracts dirliab byte %8.0g director liability execsv byte %8.0g executive severance agreement state str2 %2s state of incorporation de_inc byte %8.0g delaware incorporation sl_buscomp byte %8.0g business combination law sl_fairprice byte %8.0g fair price law sl_csa byte %8.0g control share acquisition law sl_rprofits byte %8.0g recapture of profits law sl_cashout byte %8.0g cash out law sl_duties byte %8.0g director's duties law date1 long %d beginning day. date used to create range of time when irrc data is applicable. date2 long %d ending day. date used to create range of time when irrc data is applicable. gindex byte %8.0g governance index (gompers, ishii, metrick) secretballot byte %8.0g combined secret ballot goldenparachute byte %8.0g combined golden parachutes severance byte %8.0g combined severance page int %8.0g irrc page number yr_reinc byte %8.0g year of reincorporation ecumvote byte %8.0g eliminate cumulative voting empc byte %8.0g employee contracts scrtbt byte %8.0g secret ballot cik str10 %10s cik mergecusip byte %8.0g mergeticker byte %8.0g matched float %9.0g prsd float %9.0g TB3MS double %10.0g (mean) TB3MS CPIAUCSL double %10.0g (mean) CPIAUCSL dlead float %9.0g (mean) dlead leadinc_v double %10.0g (mean) leadinc_v infl_v double %10.0g (mean) infl_v firmid long %8.0g firmid cusip issuer code sic2 float %9.0g ind1 byte %8.0g sic2== 1.0000 ind2 byte %8.0g sic2== 7.0000 ind3 byte %8.0g sic2== 10.0000 ind4 byte %8.0g sic2== 12.0000 ind5 byte %8.0g sic2== 13.0000 ind6 byte %8.0g sic2== 14.0000 ind7 byte %8.0g sic2== 15.0000 ind8 byte %8.0g sic2== 16.0000 ind9 byte %8.0g sic2== 17.0000 ind10 byte %8.0g sic2== 20.0000 ind11 byte %8.0g sic2== 21.0000 ind12 byte %8.0g sic2== 22.0000 ind13 byte %8.0g sic2== 23.0000 ind14 byte %8.0g sic2== 24.0000 ind15 byte %8.0g sic2== 25.0000 ind16 byte %8.0g sic2== 26.0000 ind17 byte %8.0g sic2== 27.0000 ind18 byte %8.0g sic2== 28.0000 ind19 byte %8.0g sic2== 29.0000 ind20 byte %8.0g sic2== 30.0000 ind21 byte %8.0g sic2== 31.0000 ind22 byte %8.0g sic2== 32.0000 ind23 byte %8.0g sic2== 33.0000 ind24 byte %8.0g sic2== 34.0000 ind25 byte %8.0g sic2== 35.0000 ind26 byte %8.0g sic2== 36.0000 ind27 byte %8.0g sic2== 37.0000 ind28 byte %8.0g sic2== 38.0000 ind29 byte %8.0g sic2== 39.0000 ind30 byte %8.0g sic2== 40.0000 ind31 byte %8.0g sic2== 41.0000 ind32 byte %8.0g sic2== 42.0000 ind33 byte %8.0g sic2== 44.0000 ind34 byte %8.0g sic2== 45.0000 ind35 byte %8.0g sic2== 47.0000 ind36 byte %8.0g sic2== 48.0000 ind37 byte %8.0g sic2== 50.0000 ind38 byte %8.0g sic2== 51.0000 ind39 byte %8.0g sic2== 52.0000 ind40 byte %8.0g sic2== 53.0000 ind41 byte %8.0g sic2== 54.0000 ind42 byte %8.0g sic2== 55.0000 ind43 byte %8.0g sic2== 56.0000 ind44 byte %8.0g sic2== 57.0000 ind45 byte %8.0g sic2== 58.0000 ind46 byte %8.0g sic2== 59.0000 ind47 byte %8.0g sic2== 70.0000 ind48 byte %8.0g sic2== 72.0000 ind49 byte %8.0g sic2== 73.0000 ind50 byte %8.0g sic2== 75.0000 ind51 byte %8.0g sic2== 78.0000 ind52 byte %8.0g sic2== 79.0000 ind53 byte %8.0g sic2== 80.0000 ind54 byte %8.0g sic2== 82.0000 ind55 byte %8.0g sic2== 83.0000 ind56 byte %8.0g sic2== 87.0000 yrr1 byte %8.0g yeara== 1990.0000 yrr2 byte %8.0g yeara== 1991.0000 yrr3 byte %8.0g yeara== 1992.0000 yrr4 byte %8.0g yeara== 1993.0000 yrr5 byte %8.0g yeara== 1994.0000 yrr6 byte %8.0g yeara== 1995.0000 yrr7 byte %8.0g yeara== 1996.0000 yrr8 byte %8.0g yeara== 1997.0000 yrr9 byte %8.0g yeara== 1998.0000 yrr10 byte %8.0g yeara== 1999.0000 yrr11 byte %8.0g yeara== 2000.0000 yrr12 byte %8.0g yeara== 2001.0000 yrr13 byte %8.0g yeara== 2002.0000 yrr14 byte %8.0g yeara== 2003.0000 yrr15 byte %8.0g yeara== 2004.0000 yrr16 byte %8.0g yeara== 2005.0000 yrr17 byte %8.0g yeara== 2006.0000 yrr18 byte %8.0g yeara== 2007.0000 CFr float %9.0g C float %9.0g I float %9.0g S float %9.0g prsd_gindex float %9.0g L.prsd*gindex infl_v_gindex float %9.0g L.infl_v*gindex leadinc_v_gin~x float %9.0g L.leadinc_v*gindex _est_est1 byte %8.0g esample() from estimates store ds byte %8.0g _est_est2 byte %8.0g esample() from estimates store _est_est3 byte %8.0g esample() from estimates store _est_est4 byte %8.0g esample() from estimates store _est_est5 byte %8.0g esample() from estimates store ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: firmid yeara

. su

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- dnum | 13240 4076.183 1761.057 100 8742 cnum | 0 cic | 0 smbl | 0 spdrc | 0 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- spdrcf | 0 subdbt | 0 spcprc | 0 date | 13240 14398.54 1585.951 11688 16802 data1 | 13240 450.289 1896.54 0 60592 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data2 | 13172 914.6697 6449.104 0 199407 data5 | 12854 1130.162 3029.067 1.427 51754 data6 | 13240 5283.976 17691.98 12.59 479921 data9 | 13208 1164.12 5237.742 0 207174 data10 | 13222 30.45407 196.9905 0 6532 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data12 | 13237 5099.079 15045.54 0 345977 data13 | 13222 763.4599 2355.772 -5743 68355 data14 | 13223 241.0012 853.9988 .033 16519 data15 | 12630 102.9368 482.2088 0 16945 data16 | 13236 150.4787 623.2149 -5878 27902 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data17 | 12820 -56.74968 619.833 -51066.2 15006 data18 | 13237 261.4703 1239.842 -56121.9 39500 data21 | 13199 97.24587 503.9171 0 36968 data25 | 13210 176.9868 512.343 0 10862 data34 | 13235 363.9151 3140.561 -882 93105 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data35 | 13237 234.1332 1130.977 0 36713 data46 | 8301 205.8954 699.5727 0 12183 data50 | 12855 6.960702 191.4024 -6570 5268 data51 | 8465 2.135851 31.55617 0 2400 data54 | 13217 176.6142 512.8564 1.255 10839 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data56 | 13222 31.28876 200.747 0 6532 data79 | 13075 58.3318 243.5628 0 8050 data108 | 12776 52.33407 235.0201 -3.143 10413 data111 | 12628 408.425 2392.966 0 97860 data114 | 12833 334.6373 1923.84 0 92290 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data115 | 12531 142.1446 695.7667 0 29558 data128 | 13206 319.0389 1213.832 0 33143 data129 | 12325 101.1745 534.0871 -4507 21087 data130 | 13239 17.47296 109.3831 -79 2397 data179 | 12796 453.4322 1557.552 -33780 55597 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data180 | 0 data192 | 13236 -16.45023 346.2139 -22800 2534 data199 | 13226 31.89577 33.26703 .028 998 data236 | 0 data274 | 13224 35.3596 438.5069 -11972 12234 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- data280 | 7445 11.07871 3.541757 2 29 data283 | 3259 102.5002 1.360085 101 111 data301 | 7127 -7.565929 698.9609 -18273 16973 coname | 0 yeara | 13240 1999.42 4.342025 1992 2006 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- gvkey | 0 datadate | 0 indfmt | 0 consol | 0 popsrc | 0 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- datafmt | 0 cusip | 0 curcd | 0 costat | 0 sic | 0 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- company | 0 blankcheck | 13240 .8640483 .3427502 0 1 cboard | 13240 .5798338 .4936041 0 1 fairprice | 13240 .2736405 .4458435 0 1 supermajor | 13240 .1879909 .3907197 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- antigreen | 13240 .0577039 .2331915 0 1 lwcnst | 13240 .3608761 .4802728 0 1 lspmt | 13240 .3901813 .4878092 0 1 dutiesnf | 13240 .0728852 .2599578 0 1 dualclass | 13240 .1095166 .3122981 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- uneqvote | 13240 .0153323 .1228755 0 1 lachtr | 13240 .0216767 .1456312 0 1 ppill | 13240 .5930514 .4912837 0 1 advnr | 13240 .5441088 .4980694 0 1 confvote | 13240 .116994 .3214252 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- exsvchg | 13240 .5786254 .493798 0 1 sparachute | 13240 .0289275 .1676091 0 1 pparachute | 13240 .0302115 .1711752 0 1 cumvote | 13240 .1129909 .3165937 0 1 labylw | 13240 .1740181 .3791394 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- compplan | 13240 .725 .4465311 0 1 cumvotess | 13240 .0037009 .0607247 0 1 gparachute | 13240 .0299849 .170552 0 1 oo_buscomp | 13240 .0197885 .1392781 0 1 oo_cashout~a | 13240 .0037009 .0607247 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- oo_csa | 13240 .040861 .1979757 0 1 oo_duties | 13240 .0072508 .0848453 0 1 oo_fairprice | 13240 .0021903 .0467515 0 1 oo_rprofits | 13240 .0180514 .1331422 0 1 oi_bc_ga | 13240 .002719 .0520754 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- oi_fp_ga | 13240 .002568 .050612 0 1 oi_csa | 13240 .001284 .0358111 0 1 exch | 0 dirind | 13240 .3028701 .4595169 0 1 dirindc | 13240 .1291541 .3353831 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- dirliab | 13240 .5418429 .4982649 0 1 execsv | 13240 .0773414 .2671425 0 1 state | 0 de_inc | 13240 .5820997 .4932322 0 1 sl_buscomp | 13240 .9218278 .2684525 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- sl_fairprice | 13240 .3245468 .468223 0 1 sl_csa | 13240 .2656344 .4416871 0 1 sl_rprofits | 13240 .160574 .3671514 0 1 sl_cashout | 13240 .0306647 .172414 0 1 sl_duties | 13240 .0432024 .2033202 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- date1 | 13240 14251.77 1605.852 11201 16802 date2 | 12279 14840.17 1422.27 12234 16801 gindex | 13240 9.320393 2.706351 2 18 secretballot | 13240 .1189577 .323751 0 1 goldenpara~e | 13240 .6086103 .4880797 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- severance | 13240 .0860272 .2804148 0 1 page | 10155 853.6866 508.8079 4 1918 yr_reinc | 12279 7.504683 24.47399 0 99 ecumvote | 12279 .0658848 .2480908 0 1 empc | 12279 .0093656 .0963256 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- scrtbt | 12279 .0021174 .0459687 0 1 cik | 0 mergecusip | 13240 3 0 3 3 mergeticker | 13240 2.551511 .8341994 1 3 matched | 13240 1 0 1 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- prsd | 13209 3.100911 4.992215 .0487132 207.5426 TB3MS | 13240 3.671904 1.538365 1.010833 5.816667 CPIAUCSL | 13240 170.5221 18.29557 140.3083 201.5833 dlead | 13240 112.9977 15.94765 85.81667 137.8583 leadinc_v | 13240 2.498134 .3507368 1.961765 3.137511 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- infl_v | 13240 4.976699 3.75997 1.778808 15.71469 firmid | 13240 1614.605 940.7141 1 3252 sic2 | 13240 40.35083 17.57743 1 87 ind1 | 13240 .002568 .050612 0 1 ind2 | 13240 .0001511 .0122901 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind3 | 13240 .0075529 .0865817 0 1 ind4 | 13240 .001284 .0358111 0 1 ind5 | 13240 .0304381 .1717959 0 1 ind6 | 13240 .0026435 .051349 0 1 ind7 | 13240 .0094411 .0967092 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind8 | 13240 .0040785 .0637356 0 1 ind9 | 13240 .0008308 .028813 0 1 ind10 | 13240 .0385196 .1924543 0 1 ind11 | 13240 .0030211 .054884 0 1 ind12 | 13240 .0112538 .1054892 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind13 | 13240 .0129154 .112914 0 1 ind14 | 13240 .0087613 .0931946 0 1 ind15 | 13240 .0120091 .10893 0 1 ind16 | 13240 .0260574 .1593121 0 1 ind17 | 13240 .0292296 .1684559 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind18 | 13240 .0883686 .2838409 0 1 ind19 | 13240 .0160121 .1255264 0 1 ind20 | 13240 .0135952 .1158074 0 1 ind21 | 13240 .0047583 .0688188 0 1 ind22 | 13240 .0114048 .1061867 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind23 | 13240 .0280211 .1650395 0 1 ind24 | 13240 .0231873 .1505037 0 1 ind25 | 13240 .0805136 .2720969 0 1 ind26 | 13240 .0847432 .2785097 0 1 ind27 | 13240 .0443353 .2058468 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind28 | 13240 .0550604 .2281068 0 1 ind29 | 13240 .0109517 .1040795 0 1 ind30 | 13240 .0071752 .0844055 0 1 ind31 | 13240 .0000755 .0086907 0 1 ind32 | 13240 .0054381 .0735452 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind33 | 13240 .0053625 .0730355 0 1 ind34 | 13240 .0101964 .1004648 0 1 ind35 | 13240 .0033988 .0582022 0 1 ind36 | 13240 .0271903 .1626438 0 1 ind37 | 13240 .0314199 .1744564 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind38 | 13240 .0148792 .1210738 0 1 ind39 | 13240 .0042296 .0649002 0 1 ind40 | 13240 .0152568 .1225772 0 1 ind41 | 13240 .0111782 .1051386 0 1 ind42 | 13240 .0046828 .068273 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind43 | 13240 .0191088 .1369125 0 1 ind44 | 13240 .0082326 .090363 0 1 ind45 | 13240 .0176737 .1317675 0 1 ind46 | 13240 .0203927 .1413449 0 1 ind47 | 13240 .0033233 .0575541 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind48 | 13240 .0061178 .0779798 0 1 ind49 | 13240 .083006 .2759018 0 1 ind50 | 13240 .0022659 .0475489 0 1 ind51 | 13240 .0026435 .051349 0 1 ind52 | 13240 .0073263 .0852828 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ind53 | 13240 .014426 .1192432 0 1 ind54 | 13240 .0028701 .0534983 0 1 ind55 | 13240 .0006798 .0260643 0 1 ind56 | 13240 .0097432 .0982293 0 1 yrr1 | 13240 0 0 0 0 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- yrr2 | 13240 0 0 0 0 yrr3 | 13240 .0609517 .2392507 0 1 yrr4 | 13240 .0602719 .2379989 0 1 yrr5 | 13240 .0570997 .2320418 0 1 yrr6 | 13240 .0648792 .2463218 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- yrr7 | 13240 .061858 .2409066 0 1 yrr8 | 13240 .0606495 .2386954 0 1 yrr9 | 13240 .0557402 .229428 0 1 yrr10 | 13240 .0507553 .2195059 0 1 yrr11 | 13240 .0755287 .2642525 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- yrr12 | 13240 .070997 .2568295 0 1 yrr13 | 13240 .0763595 .2655825 0 1 yrr14 | 13240 .0719033 .2583375 0 1 yrr15 | 13240 .0888973 .2846062 0 1 yrr16 | 13240 .0715257 .2577106 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- yrr17 | 13240 .0725831 .2594607 0 1 yrr18 | 13240 0 0 0 0 CFr | 13223 .0864498 .1233882 -4.13049 .8582552 C | 13240 .1201926 .1509193 0 .9275386 I | 13206 .0591867 .0498824 0 .6511506 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- S | 13237 1.207599 .7381819 0 7.584212 prsd_gindex | 13215 28.23821 49.55833 .1003324 1596.183 infl_v_gin~x | 13240 39.04809 24.02987 3.753855 182.2004 leadinc_v_~x | 13240 22.69865 7.129067 3.923531 54.1888 _est_est1 | 13240 1 0 1 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- ds | 13240 1 0 1 1 _est_est2 | 13240 .9981118 .0434142 0 1 _est_est3 | 13240 .9981118 .0434142 0 1 _est_est4 | 13240 .9981118 .0434142 0 1 _est_est5 | 13240 .9981118 .0434142 0 1

. egen fcount = tag(firmid)

. count if fcount 1887

. bys firmid: gen nobs = _N

. su nobs

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- nobs | 13240 10.40755 4.52727 1 15

. tab nobs

nobs | Freq. Percent Cum. ------------+----------------------------------- 1 | 257 1.94 1.94 2 | 218 1.65 3.59 3 | 792 5.98 9.57 4 | 328 2.48 12.05 5 | 945 7.14 19.18 6 | 492 3.72 22.90 7 | 1,841 13.90 36.81 8 | 384 2.90 39.71 9 | 243 1.84 41.54 10 | 570 4.31 45.85 11 | 352 2.66 48.50 12 | 636 4.80 53.31 13 | 975 7.36 60.67 14 | 392 2.96 63.63 15 | 4,815 36.37 100.00 ------------+----------------------------------- Total | 13,240 100.00

. bys firmid: g dgindex = (D.gindex != 0 & _n > 1)

. bys firmid: g sdgindex = sum(dgindex)

. bys firmid: g fdgindex = sdgindex[_N] if _n == _N & _N > 1 (11610 missing values generated)

. su dgindex sdgindex fdgindex

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- dgindex | 13240 .1481873 .355299 0 1 sdgindex | 13240 .8487915 .9592215 0 6 fdgindex | 1630 1.203681 1.134421 0 6

. l firmid gindex dgindex sdgindex fdgindex in 1/50, sepby(firmid)

+-------------------------------------------------+ | firmid gindex dgindex sdgindex fdgindex | |-------------------------------------------------| 1. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 2. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 3. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 4. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 5. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 6. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 7. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 8. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 9. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 10. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 11. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 12. | 000361 15 0 0 . | 13. | 000361 15 0 0 0 | |-------------------------------------------------| 14. | 000886 11 0 0 . | 15. | 000886 13 1 1 . | 16. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 17. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 18. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 19. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 20. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 21. | 000886 13 0 1 . | 22. | 000886 12 1 2 . | 23. | 000886 12 0 2 . | 24. | 000886 13 1 3 . | 25. | 000886 13 0 3 . | 26. | 000886 13 0 3 . | 27. | 000886 13 0 3 . | 28. | 000886 13 0 3 3 | |-------------------------------------------------| 29. | 000957 11 0 0 . | 30. | 000957 11 0 0 . | 31. | 000957 11 0 0 . | 32. | 000957 11 0 0 . | 33. | 000957 10 1 1 . | 34. | 000957 10 0 1 . | 35. | 000957 9 1 2 2 | |-------------------------------------------------| 36. | 001084 7 0 0 . | 37. | 001084 7 0 0 . | 38. | 001084 7 0 0 . | 39. | 001084 7 0 0 . | 40. | 001084 9 1 1 . | 41. | 001084 9 0 1 . | 42. | 001084 9 0 1 1 | |-------------------------------------------------| 43. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 44. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 45. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 46. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 47. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 48. | 001547 9 0 0 . | 49. | 001547 8 1 1 1 | |-------------------------------------------------| 50. | 001744 6 0 0 . | +-------------------------------------------------+

. tab fdgindex

fdgindex | Freq. Percent Cum. ------------+----------------------------------- 0 | 519 31.84 31.84 1 | 557 34.17 66.01 2 | 341 20.92 86.93 3 | 143 8.77 95.71 4 | 58 3.56 99.26 5 | 10 0.61 99.88 6 | 2 0.12 100.00 ------------+----------------------------------- Total | 1,630 100.00

. // of the 1630 firms that have more than 1 observation in the estimation sample, . // 519 (31.8%) have not changed their Gindex. 557 (34%) have changed it once, . // 341 (21%) changed it twice, etc. . . log close log: /Users/baum/Documents/boyan/Boyan-CorpGov/CorpGov_revise/udcl9218-1.smcl log type: smcl closed on: 18 Feb 2009, 14:08:30 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------